Texas halts new data center connections as it scrutinizes a flood of power requests
The state has become the first major hub for such facilities to pause new grid hookups while examining their legitimacy. Across the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South, data centers and other massive electricity consumers have filed requests totaling more than 700 gigawatts—a figure regulators suspect masks phantom demand from companies lacking the resources to build.
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